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Ahaziah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("whom Jehovah holds".) 1. Son of Ahab and Jezebel; king of Israel; a worshipper of Jeroboam's calves, and of his mother's idols, Baal and Ashtoreth. After the Israelite defeat at Ramoth Gilead. Syria was master of the region E. of Jordan; so Moab (2 Kings 1:1; 2 Kings 3:5), heretofore tributary to Israel, refused the yearly tribute of 100,0...

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Ahiam in Easton's Bible Dictionary

mother's brother, one of David's thirty heroes (2 Sam. 23:33; 1 Chr. 11:35)....

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Ahiezer in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Hereditary prince captain of Dan under Moses (Numbers 1:12; Numbers 2:25; Numbers 7:66). 2. 1 Chronicles 12:3....

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Ahihud in Naves Topical Bible

1. A prince of Asher, assists in allotting the land of Canaan among the tribes Nu 34:27 -2. A son of Bela 1Ch 8:7...

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Ahijah in Naves Topical Bible

1. Son of Bela 1Ch 8:7 -2. Son of Jerahmeel 1Ch 2:25 -3. A priest in Shiloh, probably identical with Ahimelech, mentioned in 1Sa 22:11 Was priest in Saul's reign 1Sa 14:3,18 Killed 1Sa 22:11-19 -4. One of David's heroes 1Ch 11:36 Also called ELIAM 2Sa 23:34 -5. A Levite who was treasurer in the tabernacle 1Ch 26:20 -6. Son of Shish...

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Ahijah Scripture - 2 Kings 9:9

And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:...

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Ahaz in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

a'-haz ('achaz, "he has grasped," 2 Ki 16; 2 Ch 28; Isa 7:10 ff; Achaz). 1. Name: The name is the same as Jehoahaz; hence appears on Tiglath- pileser's Assyrian inscription of 732 BC as Ia-u-ha-zi. The sacred historians may have dropped the first part of the name in consequence of the character of the king. 2. The Accession: Ahaz was the son of ...

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Ahaz Scripture - 2 Kings 16:7

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me....

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Ahaziah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

seizure; vision of the Lord...

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Ahiam in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(or Sacar) 1 Chronicles 11:35). 2 Samuel 23:33....

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